Tuesday, October 7, 2008

Caramel Production Company!

The workers were hard at work trying to figure the best way to ship 100 pieces of caramel to customers! This is what they found after a lot of brainstorming with their "co-workers"!!

The workers quickly realized that the caramel could be placed in a box with the dimensions 1 x 100 = 100.



Then a worker in the caramel factory decided he could box his caramel in a box with the dimensions 2 x 50!

After a few minutes of counting, another group soon realized they could place the caramel in a box with the dimensions 4 x 25 = 100! This box was looking pretty good, and they started imagining the box being wrapped in a nice bow for Halloween!

Here is another box with the dimensions of 5 x 20:

And finally the workers found a PERFECT SQUARE!! 10 x 10 = 100!


The workers found all of the FACTORS of 100 and the combinations that make up 100 when they are multiplied together.

Here they are: (1 x 100) (100 x 1), (2 x 50), (50 x 2), (4 x 25), (25 x 4), (5 x 20), (20 x 5), and (10 x 10)

1 comment:

Team Prausa @ Room 209 said...

Excellent pics! I love seeing math in action. Thanks for sharing. :) Nan Prausa